A husband and wife, both teachers, lived in house facing a bank on the opposite side of the road. One day, as they were arriving home from work, they witnessed an attempted armed robbery taking place outside the bank. The quick thinking security van driver put the van into gear and drove away, leaving the frustrated would-be robbers to make a dash to their get-away car and speed off, empty handed, in the opposite direction.

After it was all over, the couple saw a bag lying on the floor where the security van had been. They picked it up and peeked inside. It was full of money. It must have fallen from the van when it drove off with its side door open. They took it inside the house and counted the cash. It came to £5,000.

"We'll have to take it to the police station to hand it in" said the husband.

"No we won't" replied his wife "Finders keepers!"

"But that would be dishonest" he said.

"The insurance company will sort the bank out. They will just assume that the robbers took it. It's about time a bit of good fortune came our way. I'm going to hide it in the attic. If we spend it bit by bit, nobody will be any the wiser".

"Well I don't approve. I don't approve at all".

The next day, the police were going from house to house, asking the locals if they had seen anything that could be useful to the investigation. When they knocked on the couple's door, she said "No, I didn't see anything. I was in the back garden at the time. I like keep myself to myself".

Just then her husband shouts from living room, "DON'T BELIEVE HER! She's got £5,000 hidden in the attic".

"Don't pay any attention my husband" says the woman in an anxious tone. "He's going senile!"

"Even so madam, I think we need to talk to him" said the policeman. "Now then sir, what can you tell us about yesterday?"

"Well, Jane and I were walking home from school ..."

"Thank you madam" interrupts the policeman, "We've got a lot of doors to knock on. I'll leave you to look after your husband".

DC